Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-09
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Two deaths from diphtheria were re-
ported at the Health Office Monday. Five
new cases were announced.
Mayor Playter, of Oakland, presented a
veto to the ordinance granting the Sunset
Telephone Telegraph Company franchise.
Customs Inspector Tucker found twenty
pounds of prepared opium concealed in
the life -preseryers of the steamship Oceanic.
Fred Westphal, who attempted to kill
his father on Sunday az Haywards, was
yesterday committed to the Insane Asy-
lum.
Charles Brevart, who worked al the cot
ton mills at East Oakland, had his arm
lacerated yesterday by being caught in the
machinery.
Francis Sheridan, janitor in the employ
of the Evening Post Publishing Company,
has been missing from his home at No. $50
Harrison street since Thursday last.
While the steamer Coos Bay was lying at
her wharf on Sunday night the cook
walked overheard and was drowned. II
is supposed that he was in demented
state.
Charles Dawson and Thomas Ryan had
row over woman in Barbary Coast
saloon last Thursday night, and Dawson
fred three shots at Ryan. Dawson has
been arrested.
Over $134 eco in duties ON opium i'm
ported was collected by the last two steam
| ships from Sydney, Australia. A strict
watch for contraband opium Is to be main
tanned on these steamers.
Max Coheim editor of local German
| periodical, slipped and fell upon a stone
staircase Saturday and sustained a COM
pound oblique fracture OF the left leg. He
was taken 10 the Receiving Hospital for
treatment 1t is feared that the limb may
have to be amputated.
Judge Sawyer denied the motion for a
new trial, made by the defendants in the
two cases of Abbie L. Waterman against
Northumberland X. W. Waterman and
J. l.. Porter. The decision confirms the
plaintiffs title to share in the Waterman
mines in San Fernardino county.
In concession to the demands of Oak
land merchants, presented through the
Board of Trade, the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company has consented that carload
rates from East aud West Oakland and
Berkeley to the Missouri river shall not
exceed the rates from San Francisco to the
same points.
The case of NJ. ]. Kerrigan VS.. the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company is ON
trial before Judge Armstrong in Depart
plaintiff claims 500 600 damages for in
iuries sustained while riding in a stage
from the defendants line to Gilroy Hot
Springs. The company hold that they are
not responsible for accidents on the stage
line
Counsel for the defense of Alexander
Goldenson, the murderer of Mamie Kelly,
have notified the District Attorney that
they will apply TO Judge Murphy for the
appointment of a commission to take testi-
mony in Chicago and other Eastern cities.
The prosecution will oppose the issuance
of commission, on the ground that the
application should have been made sooner.
Tons Of earth and rock are brought
down from the face OF Telegraph Hill
by the rain-soaking given to the pre-
cipitous face left by the sea- wall contractors,
and number of buildings which stand on
the brink are liable at any moment to
slide down TO the street below. All along
the face of the hill, from the corner of VAL
lejo and SGnsome to that Of Kearny and
Lombard streets, constant caves, large and
small, are going on.
Mrs Annie Donahue, widow of the late
Peter Donahue, has filed an amended petit
ton, asking for partial distribution of
her husbands estate. The appraised value
Of the same is So IT'S, ,312. Mrs. DOnahue
ueCllHts 10 IeiedSo VI assieu any CIdlul OF
interest in common, and she asks for her
share-one- half of the community prop
erty She also asks that ]. Mervyn Dona-
hue and Mary E. Won Schroeder be re-
quired to answer the petition.
Marshal Franks, under writs Of con-
domination and sale issued by the United
States District Court, sold at auction .035
fve-Iael boxes of prepared opium and 20S
pounds of crude opium, seized by customs
officers during the months of December
and January last. The sale brought out a
sharp competition among Chinese buyers,
and the full market price of the drug was
obtained, showing that the vigilance of the
Custom m-bouse officers in making seizures
has caused scarcity. The Government
netted 50, ,l30 from the sale.